The Daytona Wheel and Tire Repository

[Skuzzy]

I must be missing something. 265/35R18 tires normally use a 9.5" wide rim, 10" tops.

[ProJoe]

I must be missing something. 265/35R18 tires normally use a 9.5" wide rim, 10" tops.

I mean I guess you're missing something, but people in the FFR/traditional muscle car or classic car world have just never been exposed to it.

In the import car world people run a thinner tire for aesthetic reasons, and on older japanese cars also for clearance reasons. He is building his coupe in what I could call a stylized JDM (japanese domestic market) fashion. so huge wheels with a tire that stretches a little bit and a car so low to the ground it's almost obscene.

I love it.

here is a picture from his build